Ethical and Professional Aspects

This section covers actions related to the fundamental principles of European C&C and its commitment to support excellence in research, understood as the promotion of the best possible research teams and projects free of gender and other biases.

These actions contribute to strengthening the principles that underpin the vision of the European Research Area (ERA).

The actions have a cross-cutting character, reflected in all C&C principles, and can therefore be expected to be integrated and taken into account in all other C&C principles.

Design of training courses online/on-site on ethical topics (A8)

Ethical topics

Description: The President’s Office, in collaboration with the CSIC Ethics Committee, has designed the course “Ethics and Integrity in Research”, aimed at CSIC scientific and technical staff who need to acquire or update their knowledge of good scientific practices. In 2022 it has been incorporated into the CSIC Training Plan, offering two editions of the course annually, in the 2nd and 4th trimester. The course is mainly taught by members of the CSIC Ethics Committee.

Status: Finished 

Greater dissemination of everything related to the Ethics Committee (to be included in the Welcome Manual) (A9)

Ethical topics

Description: Improvement of the promotion and coordination of the courses.

The CSIC Welcome Manual (see A3) includes a specific section on ethics and integrity in research. In addition, several information and documents have been disseminated to CSIC Staff, as the CSIC Code of Good Scientific Practice (A10), the document “New Recommendations for the drafting of a research participant information sheet and informed consent document. informed consent document”, the new CSIC course “Ethics and Integrity in Research” (2 editions per year),or the FGCSIC Course on Good Scientific Practice, in which the CSIC Ethics Committee also collaborates, among others.

Status: In process

Completion of the update of the Scientific Good Practises (A10)

Ethical topics

Description: Update of the Code of Good Practice, in alignment with the Charter & Code and OTM-R.

Status: Finished

General transfer guide (A11)

Description: Explanatory guide to the subject.

Status: In process

Support to the Open Science strategy, via the institutional repository DIGITAL.CSIC and Open Access publishing support programme (A12)

Description:

Status: In progress 

Create the CSIC’s Prize for Scientific Dissemination (A13)

Description: Recognize the continuous effort of the CSIC’s staff for the dissemination of scientific results.

Status: Finished 

Implementation of a monitoring system (A14)

Description: Deploy a management tool to individualize the programming and monitoring of contracts / research projects.

Status: To be launched

“Promotable” (A15)

Description: Scientific-technical monitoring “where you are in the scientific cloud”, action to know your scientific situation in order to promote.

Status: To be launched

Promotion and improvement of the management of scientific projects (A16)

Description: Undertake a set of structured actions to promote and improve project management.

Status: In process

Promoting the integration of the gender dimension in research projects (A17)

Non discrimination

Description: Raise awareness within the CSIC community of the importance of including a gender perspective in all regular activities or gender within research projects.

The third Plan for Equality between Women and Men at the CSIC includes specific actions to promote gender perspective in research. In addition, the CSIC’s Global Training Catalogue includes courses on the incorporation of gender analysis in research.

Status: To be launched

Mention and recognition of the LGTBI collective (A18)

Non discrimination

Description: Study and analysis of the situation of the LGTBI collective.

Status: To be launched